Improvement in weather-strips



UNITED STATES PATE a. T DFFIOE.

FRANK DAVIS, OF NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN WEATHER-STRIPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 190,420, dated May 8, 1877; application filed March 12, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK DAVIS, of North Adams, in the county of Berkshire, State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Weather-Strips, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of the same.

My invention relates to weather-strips, and

consists in the manner of connecting a strip of sheet metal and a strip of sheet-rubber which compose the weather-strip, which is hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

Figure 1 is a front view of the weather-strip. Fig. 2 is a view of the same reversed. Fig. 3 is an enlarged view of the sheet metal forming a part of the weather-strip.

In' Fig. 3, y is a strip of sheet metal, one of its edges being turned and bent down, forming the hem n. The prongs indicated by the letter a are cut in and turned up from the sheet metal in the manner shown in the drawing. In Fig. 2, a: is a strip of sheet-rubber, having the cuts through it indicated by the letter 0. This strip of rubber is placed on the strip of sheet metal 3 the prongs a passing through the cuts 0 in the rubber, the edge of manner shown in Fig. 2. The rubber, being a little thicker than the sheet metal forming the hem n, fits closely to the casing of the door or sash to which it is applied. Instead of sheetrubber, felt or leather may be used.

These strips being nailed to the casing of a door or sash, the edge of the rubber, coming against the door or sash, effectually closes all openings.

I claim as my invention- In a weather-strip consisting of a strip of sheet metal and a strip of elastic material, the strip of metal having the hem n, against the edge of which the edge of the elastic material comes, the prongs a, cut in and turned up from the sheet metal, passed through the elastic material, and clinched, substantially as shown and described.

FRANK DAVIS.

Witnesses:

GEORGE TERRY, H. B. IVES. 

